Anthony Hart
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Anthony Hart is a happily married, proud father-of-three, and self-confessed golf and swimming fanatic. He is more than a suicide survivor. 22 years ago, staying in a hotel in Sydney, Anthony walked off the top of a 21-storey building before a balcony awning seven-storeys below broke his fall. Miraculously, he survived.
During his arduous rehabilitation, Anthony discovered four powerful principles to ensure it would never happen again. Out of adversity he created the award winning free app Lifebacktracker. In his early 20’s Anthony reached dizzy heights of commercial success in the UK, before returning to Australia, and with his brothers Jeff and Nick, opened 16 Petstock franchise stores in Adelaide, later selling to Woolworths in 2023.
Anthony is passionate about changing the way Australians deal with mental health. He advocates that all health issues should be treated the same, whether physical or related to the mind. He created the Lifeback Tracker app, co-founded Save Our Mates (Chew the Fat Nights), and developed his flagship Mind Health Toolbox.
Speaker Bio & Style
Anthony Hart’s story is described as a ‘sucker-punch to the senses’ that stays with audiences long after the room has emptied. With a raw, direct and gloves-off style, he takes audiences behind closed doors on his journey to and from suicide, how he drastically turned his life around, and how others can too.
Anthony speaks candidly about mental health, sharing the signs to look for in someone struggling, and the tools he developed to address and overcome debilitating challenges. His mission is to normalise help-seeking for mind health – as natural as seeking treatment for a broken leg.
TALKS
- Back from the Brink – A story-driven keynote. A raw account of Anthony’s survival and recovery, with lessons for anyone facing challenges. 45 mins
- Your Mind Health Toolbox – A practical keynote, where audiences gain life changing tools to help confront, address, and manage challenges affecting the mind. 45 mins
- Experience Share + Q & A – Ideal for informal settings, community forums. 60-90 mins
- Toolbox Talk – Equips any audience with the tools to boost mental health. 30 mins
WORKSHOPS
- Your Mind Toolbox – Delivered to industry, trade, wide varieties of workplaces – 2 hrs
- Lifeback Tracker – learn the life changing 4 steps to better mind health – 30 mins
The Mind Health Toolbox
Anthony’s Toolbox is a practical 4-step framework built on 20 years of lived experience and community delivery. It is designed to confront, address, and manage early signs of stress, anxiety, or depression.
The four steps..
Identify Triggers – Pinpoint triggers affecting your mind.
Connect – See your GP + confide in the right mate.
Plan – Improve sleep, increased exercise, removing alcohol & drugs, and talking
Track – using Lifeback Tracker App – intuitively tracking 4 steps to better mind health.
Anthony’s high impact, deeply personal story cut through with our staff in a way that other no other speaker had been unable. In the days following his presentation, there were many lunchroom conversations about mental health issues that we weren’t having before.
Anthony’s story is compelling and is delivered in a way that relates to everyday life experiences. He delivers an approach to mind and physical wellbeing that is unique and reaffirms what many of us struggle with in our day to day lives. The strength in Anthony’s presentation leaves no doubt that your decision to share his story will stay in the back of your mind of those who will hear it, as it has with me. Be assured if it cannot help you directly it will help someone you know or love and that is the best part of Anthony Hart’s story.
The address by Anthony was possibly the most interactive and popular we’ve ever had at the FBAA National Conference, and this tells us what brokers need right now. “Brokers don’t have large support networks, and let’s remember that many have spent the majority of 2019 worried about their futures.” Anthony is a passionate, highly engaging speaker sharing his incredibly powerful story, who possessed an innate ability to engage our audience. I’d personally recommend him.
Anthony’s powerful story was unforgettable. The mind health tips and tools he shares I like to explain his support for our people as ‘taking your mind to the gym’. The feedback from the Toyota team was overwhelmingly positive.
Anthony’s very frank, open and honest description of his “Mind” Health journey from the depths of despair to now educating people about how to improve “Mind Health” was inspiring. His message must be shared for the benefit of everyone in our society.